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  • Stephen Graham Jones
    Stephen Graham Jones at CU. Photo credit: Anthony CameraUniversity of New Mexico Press will publish The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion in December. Jones, who is also CNAIS Core Faculty and an English professor at CU was
  • Carla Fredericks with American Indian law students
    Julia LaManna, Johanna Kron, Carla Fredericks, and Derik Goatson at CU LawAlthough Colorado adopted a mail-in ballot voting process partly to make voting easier for state residents, it unfortunately had a negative impact on members of the Ute
  • Photo of Dean Anaya
    PICTURED (L-R): Dean Anaya; President of General Assembly Peter Thomson of Fiji; Ambassador Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee of Ghana; Ambassador Kai Sauer of Finland. Photo credit: CU LawCU Law School Dean James Anaya was recently in the news for his meeting
  • ELOKA logo
    Members of ELOKA (Exchange for Local Observations & Knowledge of the Arctic) recently helped to launch a website to preserve maps and other indigenous knowledge from the Bering Sea Elders group in Alaska. The group recently published a book The
  • Greg Johnson
    CNAIS Core Faculty and CU Religious Studies Professor Greg Johnson was interviewed for a recent ThinkPress article on the intersections between environmental protests and indigenous spiritual beliefs: Religion has long been a part of Native
  • Kristen Carptenter
    CNAIS Core faculty and CU Law faculty, Kristen Carpenter published the following article: Indian Status Is Not Racial: Understanding ICWA as a Matter of Law and Practice in CATO-Unbound in August, 2016ICWA was passed by Congress in 1978 to
  • City of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß logo
    Recognizing that ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß "has benefited directly from Indian removal policies that violated human rights," the City Council voted unanimously, and joyfully, late Tuesday night to make ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß the country's 14th community to declare an annual Indigenous Peoples' Day. A complete schedule of events is available here.
  • yazzie and art
    CNAIS Executive Board member, Melanie Yazzie was interviewed this spring related to a piece she is showing at the Denver Art Museum through July in an exhibition called "Strong Statements" . Her piece See the full interview below: http://
  • CU Law Dean Anaya
    Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of James (Jim) Anaya, a Regents’ Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, as dean of the law school. Anaya will begin his duties on
  • Sasha Strong wins Udall Scholarship
    CU-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß students Bridger Ruyle and Zhashki (Sasha) Strong have been selected as 2016 Udall Scholars, becoming the ninth and tenth CU-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß students to be honored with the scholarship since its inception in 1996.Ruyle and Strong were among
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